The Department of Toxicology and Health Inspection and Quarantine, School of Public Health, Tianjin Medical University, was established in 2023, with Professor Fang Zhongze serving as the current head of the department. Its predecessor, Department of Toxicology and Sanitary Chemistry, was established in 2018, consisting of the Department of Toxicology and the Department of Sanitary Chemistry, which were established in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Under the leadership of the discipline leader, Professor Fang Zhongze, the department has achieved outstanding achievements in faculty construction, education and teaching, scientific research, and talent cultivation.

The department has a high-level, good academic atmosphere, and a structurally reasonable young and middle-aged faculty team. There are currently 12 full-time teachers, all of whom have doctoral degrees. Among them, there are 2 professors, 4 associate professors, and 6 lecturers. There are 2 doctoral supervisors and 5 master's supervisors. The department currently has 1 person from the Thousand Talents Plan in Tianjin, 1 Tianjin Distinguished Professor, 1 leader of the Innovation Driving Plan in Tianjin, 1 young and middle-aged backbone innovative talent in Tianjin's universities, 1 PI of the Excellent Talents Program in Tianjin Medical University, 1 talent introduced by Tianjin Medical University, 1 member of the Standing Committee of the First Division of the National Association, 7 deputy directors/members of the second division of the association, and 1 director of the Tianjin Preventive Medicine Society's Toxicology Branch.

The Department of Toxicology and Health Inspection and Quarantine undertakes core courses such as toxicology, comprehensive experimental courses in toxicology, sanitary chemistry, comprehensive experimental courses in sanitary chemistry, and sanitary microbiology, as well as elective courses for undergraduates such as epidemic prevention and inspection technology, modern instrumental analysis, genomics and clinical medicine, common toxin poisoning treatment and prevention, self-rescue and mutual aid in sudden events, and household chemicals and human health. It also offers two graduate courses, namely common poisoning and treatment and emergency management of public health events. In recent years, the department has participated in the editing of eight textbooks and monographs, served as an editorial board member for the eighth edition of the People's Medical Publishing House's textbook on toxicology for preventive medicine, served as an editorial board member for two 十四五 graduate planning textbooks on longitudinal study: theory and practice and toxicology principles and methods published by Science Press and served as an editorial board member for the third edition of the instrumental analysis textbook for hygiene inspection published by People's Medical Publishing House. Five teaching reform projects have been approved.

The major research direction of the department at present is metabolic toxicology, which comprehensively analyzes the toxic mechanisms of exogenous substances from three angles of the basis of toxic substances, the relationship between dose and toxicity, and the metabolic signaling pathways of small molecules. Metabolic toxicology is subdivided into the following four research areas: 1) in vitro metabolic toxicology research; 2) the establishment of new methods for metabolic toxicology evaluation; 3) functional metabolic toxicology; and 4) epidemiological research on toxicological metabolism in populations. In recent years, the department has undertaken 8 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology's Major Special Projects, 4 projects funded by the Tianjin Science and Technology Commission and Education Commission, 2 projects funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and 14 other projects. It has published over 100 SCI papers, of which 30 are in JCR Q1 and nearly 20 are in JCR Q2. It has won 5 provincial and ministerial-level scientific and technological awards. It has obtained 4 national patents for invention.

We have trained 25 PhD/Master's students in sanitary toxicology, with 14 graduates having obtained their Master's or PhD degrees. We have provided the public health sector with high-level professional talents. The graduate students have won numerous awards, including outstanding graduate student, national scholarship, and excellent graduate awards, as well as Tianjin University Student Innovation Fund. The PhD and Master's graduates we have trained have been working in various disease control centers, pharmaceutical companies, higher medical schools, relevant research institutes, and health administrative departments.

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